Table of Contents
Foreword Robert Darnton vii
Preface to the 2000 Edition xi
Preface xv
Part I
Chapter 1 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 3
Part II
Chapter 2 The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man 37
Chapter 3 The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind 62
Part III
Chapter 4 Religion as a Cultural System 93
Chapter 5 Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols 136
Chapter 6 Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example 155
Chapter 7 "Internal Conversion" in Contemporary Bali 187
Part IV
Chapter 8 Ideology as a Cultural System 211
Chapter 9 After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New States 252
Chapter 10 The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States 274
Chapter 11 The Politics of Meaning 333
Chapter 12 Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States 349
Part V
Chapter 13 The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss 367
Chapter 14 Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali 385
Chapter 15 Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 435
Acknowledgments 475
Notes 477
Index 527